Question

From the First World War to the Bolshevik Revolution (1914-1917)

What are the fundamental differences between the objectives of the bourgeois revolution of February 1917 and those of the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917? Answer in at least two pages

Answer 1

The Bourgeois Revolution of 1917 is also known as February Revolution and is one of the first revolution that took place in Russia in the year 1917. This revolution continued for over 8 days and there were a number of mass demonstration as well as armed clashes that took place between civilians and the army. The protect broke out without proper planning ahead and hence there were a lot of things that happened. The protest was done to address the economic as well as the social problems Russia has been suffering from a long time and that sort of enhanced after the initiation of the World War I in the year 1914. There were both long and short term causes for the revolution.

The long term causes can be due to the economic status change and things that took place due to the World War I. The revolt was in order to make more stable socioeconomic model, political structures as well as have a autocratic monarch rule. It was caused majorly due to political issues and the unrest caused between the civilians as well as the military people. The protest majorly aggravated or increased due to bad treatment to the peasants by working class, poor and bad working condition for people and democratic ideologies. All of these led to agitation and problem amongst people. The short term cause was due to Russian military and due to their provocation during the First World War. This was also enhanced due to dissatisfaction by the public. This lead to millions of casualties and led to a number of problems.

The Bolshevik October Revolution was one of the revolution that was led by the Bolshevik Party and is one of the important Russian Revolution of 1917. The revolution was started by the Bolsheviks and they organized the armed forces and this was followed by the February revolution. It was done to bring down the unrest and the suffering of the peasants and improve the socio-economic condition. It was done to improve and strengthen the army and hence created a military committee. The military included armed workers, sailors, soldiers and other and they helps in improving the unrest sitatuon.